[1] Played in either first-person or third-person perspective, players control a customisable avatar around procedurally generated planets, made up of various types and shapes of blocks.

Bases are built in the form of Beacons, which reserve an area for a particular player, protecting the land from being mined or otherwise edited by others.

It quickly gained traction with its online audience as a browser-based game and reached its first funding goal in early August 2014.

[5] After quickly outgrowing the capabilities of the browser and the scope of the original game, it was decided that Oort Online would appeal to a wider audience under the Steam Greenlight system and was successfully greenlit in September 2014.

Also in October 2015, it was announced that Boundless had been backed by Sony[7] to be a console exclusive on their PlayStation 4 platform, allowing both PS4 and PC players to share the same online universe and play together.